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Jamaican hostage-taker makes Cuba demand - CNN.com
(CNN) -- An armed man released all passengers but continued to hold five crew members hostage early Monday inside a charter plane at a Jamaican airport, officials said.
A hostage-taker commandeered a CanJet flight at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Police had the CanJet flight surrounded at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay and were negotiating with the hostage-taker.
"His demand was to go to Cuba," said Jamaica's Information Minister Daryl Vaz.
The man's father was on the scene to help secure the release of the crew members, Vaz said. The country's Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the minister of national security also flew in by helicopter.
"All passengers have been safely removed from the aircraft, but CanJet crew and the armed man remain on board," the airline said in a statement. "Our understanding is that no harm has come to anyone remaining on board and no there has been no damage to the aircraft."
The passengers would be taken to a hotel, Vaz said. Two of the crew members had locked themselves in the cockpit, he said.
CanJet Flight 918 flew in from Halifax, Canada, and had made a scheduled landing at Montego Bay when the armed man boarded the plane late Sunday, the airline said.
The flight was carrying 182 passengers and crew. The man took an undisclosed number of them hostage, said Elizabeth Scotton, a spokeswoman for the company that manages the airport.
Christen Gosslin, a passenger on the flight, told his father that the gunman demanded cash from the plane's occupants.
"The guy wanted to have all their money," said Gosslin's father, Alphonse. "He (my son) told his girlfriend to take all the money and just take her passport and credit card and put it in her back pocket."
Christen Gosslin was part of a 25-person wedding party. He and his girlfriend were released by the hostage-taker, and they spoke to his father in New Brunswick, Canada, while waiting for another flight.
"I didn't ask them too many questions; I was more concerned for their safety," the father said. "They were a bit shaken up. It was quite an experience."
Another passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane, as airport workers were loading bags. Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband said by phone from his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.